Within days, the state-owned company that produced the signal box apologized for mistakes in its design.
As a state-owned company, it is in effect banned from doing so under Treasury rules.
The answer, perhaps surprisingly, is RusHydro, a partly state-owned company that owns most of Russia's hydroelectric plants.
Under Korean law, any auction of a state-owned company's assets must attract at least two bidders before it can proceed.
Clive Palmer, one of Australia's richest men, has commissioned a Chinese state-owned company to build a 21st Century version of the Titanic.
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Nufarm itself only barely avoided being acquired in 2007 in a joint bid by an American private-equity firm and a Chinese state-owned company.
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Canada's First Quantum Minerals started production at the Kansanshi mine last year, while a Chinese state-owned company has invested in the Chambishi mine.
It is owned by a local state-owned company, Nakheel, a subsidiary of Dubai World, and fed with daily shipments by a Chinese state-owned company, COSCO.
Under the law in South Korea, any auction of a state-owned company's assets must attract at least two bidders before the sale can go forward.
State-owned company (SOE) profits slipped another 0.5% in April compared to the previous month, which shows a gradual decline in the market rather than a crash.
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Angola's oil industry is dominated by Sonangol, the state-owned company that gives concessions to international oil companies and, over time, takes in the lion's share of the profits.
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According to Agence France Presse, LVMH has joined forces with state-owned company Ningxia Nongken to plant a 163-acre vineyard in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in northwestern China.
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China Integrated Energy, Inc. (CBEH) : A non-state-owned company, China Integrated has three main businesses: the wholesale distribution of finished oil and heavy oil products, the production and sale of biodiesel, and the operation of retail gas stations.
The state-owned company also said it would review its overseas investment strategy and risk controls--a blow to China's second-largest insurer after it successfully lobbied Chinese regulators to be the first insurer allowed to invest 15% of its assets overseas (See " China's Ping An Freed To Pour More Money Overseas").
Undoubtedly, Venezuela will remain divided no matter the next president, but fair and transparent elections will help ensure the next administration has the political capital to tackle needed reforms -- from a stagnant economy to rising crimes rates, rampant transnational crime and the rebuilding of the nation's powerful state-owned oil company -- that will benefit all Venezuelans.
In early September, Trinidad's state-owned sugar company made all of its 9, 200 employees redundant.
The plant is jointly run by BP, Norway's Statoil and Algeria's state-owned oil company.
Venezuela's state-owned oil company, PDVSA, is 100 percent owner of the Tulsa-based CITGO oil company.
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But now, as the head of PDVSA, the state-owned oil company, he is on the other side.
Venezuela's state-owned oil company has a huge supply in case the Middle East goes up in flames.
Bakrie was said to be seeking a public bailout for its Bumi Resources via a state-owned coal company.
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Thailand's state-owned power company has already signed an agreement to buy most of the electricity generated by the dam.
In 2005 county officials struck a deal with Yanchang, the regional state-owned oil company, to assume control of the wells.
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The proposed budget was already super-austere, because inflation is high and oil prices low, reducing revenues from Mexico's state-owned oil company.
Meanwhile, state-owned oil company PdVSA has been all but stripped for parts.
The project would certainly be a boon for Landsvirkjun, since the state-owned electric company produces about 75 percent of all electricity in Iceland.
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Environment minister Siv Fridleifsdottir promised that the decision to go ahead would be made independently of the plans of the state-owned power company.
On 26 March, the Post Office will be turned into a state-owned limited company, giving its management more control over key commercial decisions.
State-owned oil company Cnooc Ltd. ran into a firestorm when it tried to buy Unocal Corp. in 2005, to name but one example.
It included Dr Mahathir's son, who recently sold assets to the state-owned oil company, a deal attacked as a bail-out tainted by nepotism.
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